Correction device



F. C.HI NCKLEY. CORRECTION. DEVICE. APPLICATION FILE D APR. 11,.1918.

Patented July 4, 1922.,

3 SHEETSSHE ET I.

F. c. HINCKLhY.

' CORRECTION DEVICE- APPLICATION .FILEDVAPR. H, 19I8.

F. C. HINCKLEY.

CORRECTION DEVICE- APPLICATION FILED APR. 11, 1918.

Patented July 4, 1922 3 SHEETSSHEET 3- of the invention proceeds.

umrr. STATES FRANK C. HINCKLEY, or BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR. To. COLUMBIA GRAPHOPHONE MANUFACTURING GOMIANY, or BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT,

A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 4, 1922.

Original application -filed March 20, 1917, Serial No. 156,044. Divided and this application filed April 11,

a citizen of the United States of America, I

and a resident of Bridgeport, Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Correction Devices, which invention is fully set forth in the following specification.

This invention relates to so-called correction devices for sound-recording and sound-reproducing machines, and it has for an object to provide an improved device of this character which may be manipulated with ease and speed, and which is simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture and install, and eflicient in operation. Other objects will appear as the description Tl1is applicati0n is a division of my application Sr. No. 156,044, filed March 20, 1917.

Stated broadly, the invention comprises,

in combination with a record-tablet support and a sound-box movable across a recordtablet mounted thereon, acorrection device comprising a support for a correction sheet, which is preferably rotatable, one or more markers for coaction with a correction sheet on' said support, preferably mounted for movement into and out of operative relation with said support, and means for causing relative movement of said support and marker or markers simultaneously with and in proportion to the movement of the soundbox across the record-tablet. When a plurality of markers are employed they are preferably so positionedas to coact respectively with diiferent paths on the correction sheet, and also. preferably so constructed as to make marks or indentations directed to the same point on a scale.

The invention is capable of receiving a variety of mechanical expressions one of which is shown on the accompanying drawings, but. it is to be expressly understood that the drawingsare for purposes of illustration only and are not to be construed as a definition of the limits of the invention,

reference being had to the appended claims for that purpose.

In said drawings Fig. 1 is an elevation of a sound-recording or reproducing machine provided with a 1918. Serial No. 227,941.

correction device in accordance with the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the machine;

Fig. 3 is anenlarge the correction device;

Fig. 4 is a perspective showing somewhat diagrammatically the operative connections between the sound-box carriage and the correction-sheet support; and

Fig. 5 is a detail of certain elements of the correction device.

Referring in detail to said drawings, wherein the same reference characters desd vertical section of ignate corresponding parts in the several figures, a sound-recording or reproducing D machine of any suitableconstruotion is illustrated, the same comprlsing a record-tablet support 1, suitably mounted for rotation in a frame 2 shown as provided with a base 3, and a sound-box 4 suitably mounted on a carriage 5 for movement across a record on said support.

Conveniently positioned upon the machine, and shown as mounted on the front portion of the base 3, is a correction device which, as to certain features, is an improvement of that described and claimed in the patent to Clinton Woods No. 1,153,665, granted Sept. 14:, 1915.

In the form shown, a support 6 for a correction-sheet 7 is provided with a raised central boss 8 carrying one or more pins 8 for attaching the correction-sheet thereto, said support being mounted on a stub shaft 9 rotatably mounted ina bearing 10 provided therefor in a suitable bracket or support 11 carried by the base of-the machine. Said shaft is preferably inclined to the horizontal, as shown, so that the correction sheet 7 mounted on the support 6 will be approximately at right angles -to the line of vision of the dictator or transcriber.

Attached to said support 6 inany suitable way is a drum 12 and, to provide for the rotation of said support and drum simultaneously with and in proportion to the movement of the sound-box as it traverses the record-tablet during its operative movement, a cord 13 is wound about said drum and extends over suitable guide pulleys 14 to any suitable device 15 for attaching the same to the sound-box carriage 5. To rotate position.

the support 6 in the opposite direction as In operative relation to said support are 1 one or more markers, the same preferably being mounted for movementinto and out of such operative relation with said support.

In the form shown, a plate19 provided with cars 20 is mounted on the support 11 so as to overlie the support 6, said plate being suitably attached to the support 11, as by one or more screws 21. Said plate 19 may be desirably stamped up from sheet-metal (see Fig. 5) and the cars 20 bent up at right angles to the body thereof. Pivotally mounted in the cars 20, as by a pin 22, is a frame 23 carrying one or more marking members, shown as plungers 24 provided with. operating ends for marking or indenting the correction-sheet and normally urged to their outermost position by springs 25. Said springs are shown as mounted in recesses 23 in the frame 23 which are coaxial with the plungers, and as bearing at one end against the frame and at the other end in sockets 24' provided therefor in the plungers. Any suitable means,-as set-screws 26 in the frame coacting with slots or grooves 26 in the plungers, may be employed to prevent rotation of the latter. Secured to the frame 23 is a plate 27 provided with a finger 28 adapted to engage the projecting end of stub shaft 9 when the frame is moved into operative Plate 27 is shown as provided with one or more apertures 29 by which the same may be secured to the base of the frame 23 by screws 30, and with one or more apertures 31 through which the plunger or plungers 24 are designed to operate.

As a die for said plunger or plungers, a plate 32 is mounted over plate 19 and spaced therefrom by a plate 33, said plates 19 and 32 being separated sufficiently to receive therebetween the correction-sheet which is supported inalinement with the plate 33 by the boss 8 on the support 6. Plates 32 and 33 are shown as provided with-apertures 34 .in alinement with the apertures 35 in the plate 19 through which the screws 21 pass, so that said plates 32 and 33 may be at- .tached to the support 11 by said screws 21.

Plates 19 and 32 are also provided with alined apertures 36 to receive the operating ends of the'plungers-24 when depressed, the support 6 being provided with an annular recess or groove 37 into which the plunger ends may project. Plate 32 is also shown as provided with an additional aperture 38 y from one edge of which extends a projection 39 constituting a pointer for cooperation with a scale 40 (see Fig. 4) on the correction-sheet 7.

When a plurality of plungers are used, it is desirable that they shall cooperate respectively with different paths on the correction-sheet.- As shown, the correction-sheet 7 is provided with a plurality of concentric zones 41 corresponding in number to the number of plungers, and the plungers are so arranged as to respectively engage said sheet in the several zones. Said plungers are pro vided with operating ends for making any suitable marks or indentations; in the form shown, they are so constructed as to constitute punches. The operating ends of the punches may be arranged coaxially with the bodies of the plungers, but, in order that the holes made thereby in the correction-sheet may not be out of alinement with the point on the scale 40 opposite the pointer 39 when the punches are actuated, the operative ends of said punches, in the preferred construction, are so arranged or constructed as to make impressions having points directed to that portion of the scale which is then opposite the p'ointer 39. To this end, the operating end 42 of each plunger is shown as offset with respect to the body thereof and made triangular in shape (see Fig. 5). Thereby all of said punches are adapted to make impressions directed to the same point on the scale, as will appear from the relative location of the apertures 31 and 36 in the plates 27, 32, and 19, which apertures, as shown, are made to conform to the shape of the punches.

To render an audible signal when the sound-box has reached the end of its traverse across the record-tablet, a. bell 43 is mounted within the base of the machine and provided with a striking lever 44 pivoted on a pin 45 carried by the hub of the bell. Said lever is provided, adjacent one end thereof, with a striker 46 and, intermediatethe ends thereof, with an operatinglug 47. The striker 46 is normally urged into engagement with the bell by,a spring 48 attached to a pin 49 on said lever and a pin 50 on the hub of the bell. To operate said striking lever, a trip device 5lis pivotally and eccentrically mounted on a collar 52 secured to the end of the shaft 9. A spring 53 wrapped around the pivot pin of said trip device normally urges the same into engagement with a stop 54 provided on said collar. The outer end of said trip device is designed to engage the operating lug 47 on the striking lever 44 as shaft 9 completes its rotation and the sound-box reaches the end of its traverse, withdrawing striker 46 from engagement with the bell and then releasing the same to produce the audible signal.

Upon the reverse rotation of shaft 9 under 7 the influence of spring 16, trip device 51 is turned about its own pivot against the tension of sprin -53 by engagement of said trip device with the lug 47 until said trip device has passed said lug. Thereby the bell is not .m ark in the appropriate zone.

struck during the return movement of the sound-box.

In operation, a correction-sheet is placed on the support 6 with the zero mark on its scale 40 opposite the pointer 39, said sheet projecting between the plates 19 and 32. As the sound-box traverses the record-tablet during recordation thereon or reproduction therefrom, the correction-sheet support 6 is rotated simultaneously with and in proportion to the travel of the sound-box through the action of the cord 13 connected to the sound-box carriage 5 and Wound off of the drum 12 by the traverse of said carriage. If, during the 'course of recordation, the dictator desires to give any special instructions to the transcriber, the appropriate marker is depressed to produce an impression in the corresponding zone of the correction-sheet at that point thereof which is then opposite the pointer 39. Thus, assume that one of the concentric zones 41 on the correction-sheet isdesigned to indicate that matter is to be rushed, while the other zone is to indicate that special instructions are to be given. I'f matter is to be rushed, the dictator will, at the begin ning of that part of his dictation, depress the plunger which corresponds to the zone devoted to rush-matter, and which will be suitably marked, thereby punching an aperture in the correction-sheet at'the part of the scale which is then opposite the pointer 39. Similarly, if special instructions are to be given at any point of the dictation, the dietator will at such point operate the other plunger to produce a corresponding punch Thus there is a definite indication for the transcriber to follow by which designated portions of the dictation may be readily selected.

As the sound-box reaches the endof its traverse the shaft 9 completes its rotation, and the trip device 51 thereon engages the operating lug 4.7 on the striking lever 43, withdrawing the striker 46 from engagement with the bell against the tension of the sprin 50 and then releasing the same to allow t e striker to engage the bell and ring the same. As the sound-box is moved back to its initial position, spring 16, tensioned by the rotation of the support 6 as the same is rotated by the advance movement of the sound-box, rotates said support in the opposite direction, winding up cord 13 on the drum 12.

On the other hand, assume that the same machine is to beused during transcription of the dictation (though in practice a separate machine would probably be used), the correction-sheet is positioned on the support 6 with the zero mark of its scale opposite the pointer 39. The sound-box is then moved along the record-tablet until an aperture in the proper zone comesopposite said pointer,

readily suggest themselves to those skilled in the art, while certain'features thereof are capable of use without other features there:

,of. Reference is therefore to be had to the claims hereto appended for a definition of the limitsof the invention.

What is claimed is i l. The combination in a sound-recording or reproducing machine, of a record-tablet support and a sound-box having relative movement between them, a disc-shaped support for a correction-sheet, means for cans ing a relative rotation of said correctionsheet support simultaneously withandproportionately to said relative movement, and marking means comprising cooperating members disposed above and below the cor-' rection-sheet, the disc-shaped support having a circumferential recessed portion adapted to receive the lower member of the.

marking means.

2. The combination in a sound-recording or reproducing machine, of a record-tablet support and a sound-box having relative movement between them, a revolvable correction sheet 7 support having centering means adapted to be exposed through a central perforation in the correction-sheet,- a frame removably supported at one end upon said centering means, and marking means mounted on said frame for coaction with the correction-sheet and positionedto coact respectively with different radial paths on the correction-sheet, and means for moving said correction-sheet support simultaneously with and proportionately to said relative movement.

3. In a correction device for phdnographs and the like, a movable correctiongsheet support, a plurality of markers mounted in operative relation to the support whichmounts the correction-sheet, and a stationary indicator; 'said markers being arranged to mark the correction-sheet in alignment with said stationary indicator.

4. A correction-device for sound-recording and reproducing machines including one or more markerspositioned to mark upon a scale-marked correction-sheet, and a stationary pointer so arranged that the markings will be opposite thereto.

5. A -correction-device for sound recording and reproducing machines, including marking means positioned to mark upon a scale-marked correction-sheet, and' a stationary pointer normally. concealed by the markvoperative perforating members between which an annular marginal area of the correction-sheet is adapted to be moved.

7. The combination in a sound-recording or reproducing machine, of a record-tablet support and a sound-box having relative movement between them, a correction-sheet support, a marker support disposed above the correction-sheet support and being hingedly mounted at one end and resiliently mounted at its other end, and marking means carried by the support and adapted to mark a correction-sheet carried by the correctionsheetsupport.

8. The combination in a sound-recording or reproducing machine, of a record tablet support and a sound-box having relative movement between them, a rotatable disc, a

marker support disposed above the disc being mounted to be moved out of its normal relation to the disc to expose the portion normally therebeneath, marking means carried by the support and disposedalong a radial line of t e disc and adapted to mark an indicia-receiving sheet carried by the disc, and stationary means disposed between the disc and thesheet and adapted to cooperate with the marking means in the operative position thereof.

- 9. The combination in a sound-recording or-reproducing machine, of a record-tablet support and. a soundbox having relative movement between them, a movable correction-sheet support adapted to have movement proportionately to said relative movement, a marker support disposed above the correction-sheet-support and being mounted to be moved out of its normal frelation to the disc to expose the portion normally therebeneath, marking means carried by the marker support, and stationary marking means disposed above the correction-sheet support and adapted to cooperate with said first marking means to mark a correctionsheet carried by the correction-sheet support and adapted to move between the marking means.

10. The combination in a sound-recording or reproducing machine, of a record-tablet support and a sound-box having relative movement between them, a movable correction-sheet support adapted to have movement proportionately to said relative movement, a marker support disposed above the correction-sheet support being mounted to be moved out or itsnormal relation to the correction-sheet support to expose the por: tion normally therebeneath, marking means carried by the marker support, stationary marking means disposed above the correction-sheet support and adapted to cooperate with the said first marking means to mark a correction-sheet carried by the correctionsheet support and adapted to move between the marking means, and a stationary pointer adapted to indicate the markings of the sheet when the marker support is swung out of superimposed relation to the correctionsheet support.

11. A correction device for sound-recording and reproducing machines, including one or more markers normally fixed against lateral movement and mounted in operative relation to the support which mounts the correction-sheet, and a stationary indicator,

said markers being arranged to mark thesheet in alignment with the point of the stationary indicator.

12. A correction device for sound-recordmg and reproducing machines, including one or more markers normally fixed against lateral movement and mounted in operative relation to the support which mounts the correction-sheet, and a stationary indicator normally concealed by said markers, said markers being arranged to mark the sheet in alignment with the point of the stationary indicator, and being movable out of relation to the sheet to expose the indicator and the portion of the sheet normally beneath the markers. 13. A correction device for sound-recordlng and reproducing machines, including marking means, a rotatable correctionsheet adapted to have relative movement to the marking means, and having an annular portion normally disposed beneath the marking means, the marking means being dis-- the correction-sheet to expose the markings in line with the indicator and the center of rotation of the sheet.

14. In combination with the sound-box of a sound-recording or reproducin machine, a disc, connecting means wit 1 the sound-box for rotating the disc, and c0- operating upper and lower marking devices associated with the disc. and positioned along a fixed radial line and between which a correction-sheet carried by the disc is adapted, to be moved.

15. The combination in a sound-recording or reproducing machine, of a record tablet support and a sound-box having relative movement between them, an index member, means for rotating the member during and proportionately to said relative movement, and a fixed table extending inwardly toward the axis of said member and over which it moves.

16. The combination in a sound-recording or reproducing machine, of a record tablet support and a sound-box having relative movement between them, means for supporting said member at its center and for rotating the same during and proportionately to said relative movement, and indiciaentering means including upper and lower devices straddling the said member at one side of its center. a

17. The combination in a sound-recording or reproducing machine, of a record tablet support and a sound-box having relative movement between them, an index member,

and marking means therefor, comprising a plurality of members having marking ends disposed in engagement with and respectively at each side of a straight line of marking and having exposed means for respectively operating them.

18. The combination in a sound-recording or reproducing machine, of a record tablet support and a sound-box having relative movement between them, an index member, and marking means therefor, comprising a plurality of members having marking ends disposed in engagement with and respectively at each side of a straight line of marking, and having exposed operating ends offset with relationfto the marking ends to space said operating ends to a greater extent than said marking ends.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification.

FRANK C. HINCKLEY. 

